chaoscrdntrs13

I was having the same problem. Just ran an update and it seems to be fixed. You might try that. Good Luck!

I remember seeing a little plaque at a craft show years ago that was a fuzzy brown, golfball sized pompom glued to a piece of wood. It was labeled Ozark Mountain Tick. Supposed to be funny because the ticks are often awfully big in this area. My problem isn't the ticks that are golf ball sized, but the ones the are so tiny you can barely see them. The last several caches we have attempted to locate have been on trails, but definitely in the woods. We have been using a bug repellant intended for ticks. We are careful to stay on the trails and not to disturb trees or brush as we walk. But for some reason we are ending up covered in ticks. I don't mean 5 or 6 more like 50 or 60 each. Obviously with this many we can feel them before they attach. So it is just a matter of scraping them off quickly. We noticed them in the middle of a trail today and had to hike back to the car with dozens in tow. There were so many in our shoes we had to put them in a bag in the trunk and drive home barefoot. After a mad dash home for showers we washed clothes in hot water and put our shoes into the dryer on high heat for about 20 minutes. Afterwards there didn't seem to be any left alive, but this really spoiled our caching day. We had several other caches we had hoped to do for the day, but the ticks cut time short. We have done several in-town caches, but so far our favorites have been the nature trail types. I am going to quickly loose all of the cachers in my family if I can't come up with a prevention for this. My daughter just told me, "no more with trees Mom. Lets find a nice parking lot." Does anyone have any ideas how to avoid the ticks all together? Or maybe of a way to get them off of our shoes and socks more quickly while ON the trail? Or is it just a bad year for ticks in this area and we are going to have to live with it? Thanks for any help you can provide!